| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Of painters, politicians, and film stars -- Chennai's banner industry: artists and their methods -- Cooperation and conflict in Chennai's visual culture: financiers, artists and their audiences -- Tamil cinema: history, celebrities, genres -- Cine signs: semiotics of Chennai's cinema banners -- Coalescence of Tamil nationalism and the cinema industry -- Political cutout: celebrity and cult in Tamil Nadu -- Darshan and cinematic spectatorship -- Future of Chennai's visual culture. |
| Summary |
This book focuses attention on an aspect of India's dynamic and vibrant street art billboard size advertisements, hand-painted for the entertainment cinema industry and local political parties, that unfurl mural-like across the urban landscape of Chen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Commercial art -- India -- Chennai.
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Commercial art. |
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India -- Chennai. |
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Painted signs and signboards -- India -- Chennai.
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Painted signs and signboards. |
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Graphic arts -- Social aspects -- India -- Chennai.
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Graphic arts -- Social aspects. |
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Graphic arts. |
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Graphic arts -- Political aspects -- India -- Chennai.
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India. |
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Art and society -- India -- Chennai.
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Art and society. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jacob, Preminda, 1958- Celluloid deities. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2008 9780739110607 0739110608 (DLC) 2008027140 (OCoLC)232656406 |
| ISBN |
9780739131305 (electronic book) |
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0739131303 (electronic book) |
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9780739110607 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739110608 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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